The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-01-07
GENERAL ITE3TS ABOUT
FARMING,

/ geld should De known 10 the owner.
The sooner milk is placed in pans
after milking, the larger win be the
yield of cream.
Pumpkins, while excellent food for
milk, do not make fat, but are valuable
for producing milk.
The largest peach farms arc in Mary
land. On one estate there are 125, 900
trees. and on another 10000
Piums thrive best on a soil which is
rich and naturally moist, but which
| has also been well drained.
There is one factory in tho State of
/ Cons ecticut which turns out daily co.
600 pounds of oleo-margarine.
Cooked potatoes are eaten greedily
! by hogs, and unstable potatoes can
best be disposed of in this way.
An Iowa farmer trains his grape
vines on elm-trees, and claims i'm
! proved results.
An Eastern farmer recommends 3
mixture OF barley and oats for young
stock.
1t has been discovered that potash
does growing potatoes but little good
unless applied early and well mixed
with the soil.
As long as this country is compelled
| to import annually large quantities of
! eggs there need be no fear that raising
poultry viii not prove profitable.
Secretary Chamberlain. Of the Ohio
/ Board Of Agriculture does not believe
that sorghum raising win ever pay in
! that State.
Seed potatoes should not be put into
/ q barrel which has contained salt If
the potato is any way bruised, enough
of the salt will be absorbed from the
wood to cause decay.
Allowing twelve quarts of milk to
| the pound, q New YORK dairyman says
| that at three and one-half cents per
| quart milk is more profitable than but
ter at % cents per pound.
In setting out an orchard number
| the trees and keep register of them.
| When one dies erase from the register
and replace it with the name Of the
tree set in its place.
If a cabbage that has failed TO head
is hung by a string from the top of the
hen house within reach of fowls, it will
be surprising to note how quickly it
will be picked to pieces. BY this meth
cd the cabbage is kept from the dirt.
According to the late reports of the
Bureau of Agriculture, Indiana ranks
first among the wheat-grOwing States.
! Ohio comes second, and Illinois third
The average yield in tho Hoosier State
is 1904 bushels per acre.
Have the hen-house so constructed
that no drafts can enter to afflict the
fowls with rOup, colds, etc. Always
keep the house clean, have it warm in
winter, and to do this have glass sash
put in its south front.
It costs, as estimated. $500 per acre
to transform a swamp into a cranberry
meadow; the profits Of the business,
however, justify even this heavy ex-
pense in getting the land into bearing
| condition.
Poultry-raisers should not overlook
the fact that there is money in raising
turkeys. There has not been time for
years that they have not been in good
demand and at fair prices. II you are
raising chickens and eggs for market,
keep also turkeys; they will pay.
A Cali for Young Men.
In all ages and at all times there has
been q steady demand fer sensible.
Woodworking young men. In these
days Of dades and kid-glove nonsense,
however the supply is far below the
demand, and instead Of young men
with honesty, intelligence and industry
in their heads, we find y large number
who are striving constantly after social
effects and punY honOrs that are as
shallow as the sentiment that prompts
their attainment. When man is
worth money and desires to loaf, it is
all right for him to be a fool, if he
pleases, and loll around languidly like
the most approved aristOcrat. He has
money; he must live; and he pays his
way. But for young men who are in
moderate circumstances, to say the
least, it is in bad taste, indeed, to ape
the aristocratic idea, and it is fatal to
all interests, national and social, to
have them waste their time on style,
fashion and fOolishness. Such men are
puppets, to be knocked about as the
will of their superiOrs may indicate. 1t
is also to be deplOred that while the
majority of young men who 60 astray
in this vain race for fashion, are min
compOops and mum bskulls, there is q
significant number among the foolish
ones who are capable of better things.
1t is therefore, all tho more lamentable
to see brains and muscle going to the
wall for the lack of proper advice or
direction. If our young men of brains
could only be made to see that worldly
success depends on me lOfmlnG, early
in life, of sound business principles,
and their constant rigorous observance,
the good things of life would be more
evenly distributed among men, and
there would he more domestic hap
piness and solid social enjoyment for
all. AS it is, the grand result reaped
from sobriety, enterprise, brains, and
pRinstaking effort, are achieved and
enjoyed only by the sensible few, and
81 long as young men b!indly follow
the bent of foolish indulgences and
petty pleasures, this Woodworking few
viii continue to gather unto themselves
the golden sheaYes of success. 4 man
cannot be a man and a drde ut the same
time. a poor man can not wear kid
gloves and promenade IN the streets.
There Is no character in lOafers and
hangers-on. What the age and the
nation want is character, timc-tried
and fiTe-testcd; and to character, labor
and snap, the nation VIII deliver her
wages, because the Iaborers of the
people are always worthy of their hire.
Wake up, young man! Go TO work and
make your mark IYtlijunlspoI Break
fast IuJLe.
GrandTathcr's Clock.